The official publication of the Hildesheim diocese, where Joseph Godehard Machens is bishop, claims that Germany is locked in a war against an enemy which is trying to fight against "holy natural law" and against "the right of the German people for their liberty."

That enemy cannot plausibly be the Poles whose country has been destroyed and who are predominantly Catholic themselves.

Instead, the likely subject of this claim is the Jews: traditional Catholic anti-Semitism has long described the Jews as a people who are anti-Christian and seeking to destroy Christianity, something which the Nazis have incorporated into their own anti-Semitic rhetoric.